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I'm curious to see how 3rd parties with SteamOS handhelds behave.

Both in the context of the handhelds themselves (do they meet the steam deck's high bar for reliability and longevity) as well as how the companies handle things like open source contributions or vetting games.

It takes more than just the OS to replicate the steam deck's success (even though SteamOS itself is very well executed)

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I have a ROG Ally running Bazzite. It's not Steam OS per se but close enough. The performance overlay works, TDP controls work (albeit it takes a little initial setup to install the plugins), fast suspend/resume works. Performance is really good. It was shocking to me how well Windows gaming on Linux works in general. Granted, I don't play online games that require anti-cheat software so that does skew things a bit.

Bazzite is the first time I feel like PC gaming on a TV is as convenient as a console. And you can put it on a 150$ mini PC from AliExpress and play pretty much anything that isn't an AAA game from the last 3-5 years or a competitive online game with unsupported anticheat, including most emulators. It's truly an amazing achievement.

Yep. Been running it on a 7000 series Ryzen with an M780 and it can run pretty much everything, including emulators, at good enough speeds and framerates - not just locally, but streaming to an Android handheld as well.

Games get vetted for Proton, which is a DirectX implementation for Linux. More powerful hardware might perform better, but whether or not a game can run correctly is a property of Proton, not of the Steam Deck specifically.

> Proton, which is a DirectX implementation for Linux

Wine is way more than a DirectX implementation.

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